Photo: Christine Lepisto Hey Boss! Where Should We Put All Those Bikes? A couple of photos of a building covered in bicycles started floating around the net a few days ago (I first saw them on Copenhagenize ). It’s a bike shop in Germany, and when I first saw the pics I thought “Best bike shop EVER!”, and I knew I had to learn more. Thanks to our amazing Berlin correspondent, I now have more photos and background info on this extremely clever way to advertise bikes. Check… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Straight from Germany, the Best Bike Shop EVER! (Photos)
Until the refinery at Lanjigarh is closed, indigenous groups feel Niyamgiri mountain is not safe. Photo: Survival International . While there was unrestrained rejoicing yesterday by indigenous rights campaigners after the Indian government halted a proposed bauxite mine by Vedanta Resources on the grounds it threatened the rights of two tribal groups in Orissa, an article in the
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Indian Tribals’ Sacred Mountain Not Safe Until Vedanta Refinery Closed
Image credit: AP Photo/Bullit Marquez More than two tons of illegal ivory were seized when conservation officers in Kenya found it in boxes labeled “avocados” destined for Malaysia. The seizure, made at Nairobi’s international airport, included 317 individual elephant pieces and five rhino horns. It was the largest find of its type in several years and a clear sign, officials said, that poaching in Kenya is on the rise…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Two Tons of Illegal Ivory Seized in Kenya
Images via SENSEableCity MIT’s Sensable City Lab directo Carlo Ratti and associate director Assaf Biderman have come up with the SeaSwarm, a robot that uses nanofibers to absorb 20 times its weight in oil, and their hope is that it can be developed into a viable solution for cleaning up the Gulf oil disaster. The 7-foot-wide robots sport at 16-foot-long conveyor belt of paper-like nanofibers that absorb the oil, and are rotated through the machine where the oil is cleaned off. Skimming the surface of the water and powered by sunlight, the robot can continually collect oil. They estimate that … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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MIT’s Fleet Of Solar-Powered Oil-Cleaning Robots a Solution for Gulf Spill (Video)
Photo via Jessica.Tam @ Flickr A single college or university can produce an almost immeasurable amount of waste each year — and when you multiply that by all of the schools in the country, and the world, those numbers add up. But some schools are taking their conservation efforts beyond recycling bins and CLF bulbs with everything from on-campus community gardens and programs that reach out to student renters to bike incentive programs for commuters — and that’s success you can count on…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Photo via Love the Earth Film Musician Imogen Heap announced plans to create and score a nature documentary — with a twist: She’s asking fans to shoot their own footage of the world around them and submit it. “It could be a sunrise from your bedroom window, underwater deep sea diving, a flower in a pavement crack, mist over mountains, ree… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Imogen Heap’s Call to Action, Ryan Reynolds Partners with the NRDC, and More
Images from Daily Mail What is it about celebrities and food and shops? We’ve got Prince Charles and his farm store, Liz Hurley and her organic vegetables and Jo Wood (ex-Rolling Stone wife) and hers… It’s not like they ever work there…. Now we have S… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sting Opens a Food Store (in Italy)
Photo via Oceana Entourage actor Adrian Grenier suited up for a new Oceana PSA that finds him diving in for a swim with one some of the ocean’s fastest hunters: bluefin tuna. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Adrian Grenier Swims with Tuna, Pearl Jam Supports Ocean Conservation, and More
Don’t Make a Wave Committee members and Greenpeace founders (from left) Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Irving Stowe. Photo: Greenpeace Jim Bohlen: 1926-2010 Jim Bohlen, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, died on Monday, a day after his 84th birthday. The cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease. He first stepped on the world stage when he co-founded the Don’t Make a Wave Committee in opposition to nuclear weapons tests in Alaska. The committee “leased the halibut fishing vessel Phyllis Cormack, and, after renaming it Greenpe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen Dead at 84
Image via babs886.files.wordpress.com While some of your favorite childhood cartoons came with a pretty obvious green message — “Captain Planet,” anyone? — other animations go for a more subtle impact. From the animal testing in “The Secret of NIMH” and the vegetarian undertones in “Charlotte’s Web” to “The Simpsons’” environmentalism, here are 11 fantastic animated features sending surprisingly green messages to kids (and adults).
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11 Cartoons With Surprisingly Green Messages (Video Slideshow)